Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brussels last week died Nurse Ada Doherty, an assistant of Nurse Cavell in man-smuggling. She, too, was to have been shot but with Irish wit feigned insanity so cleverly that the Germans kept her in prison until after the War. She married a Belgian named Bodart, and in 1927 wrote to a London paper: "Some time after I had been repatriated to Brussels and was busy with my washing, I was told I was wanted at the French Embassy. I went just as I was, with a bundle of washing under my arm. When I arrived I found General...
...Paris fortnight ago the Frenchman who got 20 years for peaching on Nurse Cavell to the Germans, M. George Gaston Quien, was out of jail, having served 17 years. While a prisoner he fell heir to a large fortune and his sentence was commuted. Last week, fashionably dressed but prematurely white-haired and prison-pale, M. Quien was bustling about with his lawyers. "My demand is for a new trial and complete exoneration," he said. "This is a case of mistaken identity. It was not I but another man who disclosed to the Germans the activities of Nurse Cavell...
...factory pulling all the switches in sight. Next he goes outdoors and scares a lady by waving wrenches at her because the buttons on her dress remind him of the nuts on his assembly belt. Chaplin goes to jail where he enjoys life until, by helping quell a prison mutiny, he wins a pardon. Faced once more with the task of confronting a world where even less eccentric and more ambitious individuals are having a hard time, he experiences a series of disasters...
...exhibition of his brilliantly colored little figures in Manhattan's Arden Gallery without a single critic recording the fact that that round-faced swart young man is a direct descendant of the patron saint of Mexico's independence, fiery Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, who captured the Spanish prison of Dolores in 1810, declared Mexican independence, prematurely, and got himself imprisoned and shot for his pains...
...Joliet, Ill.'s Stateville Prison, guards opened the gates to let a truck drive out of the snow-covered yard, slammed them shut again when they spied six convicts sitting blandly on a bobsled hitched to the truck's rear axle...